Bureau Veritas has long been involved in accompanying wind power projects to success. The need for specialist expertise - A wind farm of ten units requires six to nine months of installation, four to six months for civil engineering, between one and two weeks for raising the masts, two months for cabling and commissioning. Bureau Veritas Power and Utilities Vice President Kevin Wedman says, "I can utilize BV special inspectors out of our worldwide offices to perform required fabrication verification, saving clients time and money". Bureau Veritas offers a full spectrum of services from the design state through to operation. These include: Launch of a project: Environmental impact study including noise measurements before and after installation; Code compliance including plan review and safety construction inspections; Technical building controls focusing on structural soundness: Verification of surveys, calculations, plans, seismic studies, appropriateness of the foundations for the type of ground; Safety: Involvement in the design phase as well as throughout, and erection of the turbine; Third party inspections of turbine, nacelle, tower, blade, nose-cone etc., place of manufacture, then quality monitoring of onsite assembly; Verification of the dossier of conformity in line with the European directive relating to CE marking; Verification of lightning protection systems; Initial verification of the wind mast's electrical installations, infrastructures (transformers, cables, etc.) and lifting equipment (elevators and tackle); Non-destructive testing of soldering in the towers; Performance testing, quality of current, electromagnetic emission compliance; periodic verifications on in-service units.